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Flotation Device
Jan 8, 2023 10:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Music
With Michael Schell
Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell. Seattle’s finest and longest-running radio program devoted to the musical avant-garde.
Different Trains
Speech melody is on our mind this week, propelled by its recent use in Heiner Goebbels's A House of Call and by Seattle Symphony's imminent performance of Steve Reich's Different Trains (1988), one of the foundational pieces for that technique along with Scott Johnson's John Somebody (recorded in 1986). We revisit both those works while also exploring new fixed-media music by Ni Zheng, composed music by Vito Palumbo, and improvised music by Barre Phillips and György Kurtág Jr.
We also check out modern uses of ancient instruments in the form of Gordon Grdina’s oud and PoiL Ueda’s biwa. Hans Abrahamsen’s masterpiece Schnee has a new recording, which we sample along with the Zappa estate's new release of a previously-unheard version of his indeterminate big band composition Approximate. Our 50 years ago in the avant-garde feature compares musical specimens by Miles Davis and Morton Feldman that materialized on the same day in January 1973 (no prizes for guessing which was louder). And we celebrate the 80th birthday of Barry Altschul with a combination of new and classic recordings featuring this eminent free drummer.
Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell.
10:00 PM |
| KBCS 91.3 FM - HD1 Bellevue Seattle Tacoma a public service of Bellevue College KBCS
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10:01 PM |
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10:02 PM |
| Junko Ueda & Poil Dan No Ura, Pt. 2 PoiL / Ueda Dur et Doux
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10:06 PM |
| Ni Zheng Slow Death Body of Immanence Syrphe
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10:09 PM |
| Lapland Chamber Orchestra Schnee: Canon 2a Abrahamsen: Schnee Dacapo
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10:17 PM |
| Barre Phillips & György Kurtág Jr. Across the Aisle Face à Face ECM Records
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10:21 PM |
| Frank Zappa Approximate Waka/Wazoo Frank Zappa Catalog
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10:32 PM |
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10:37 PM |
| Steve Reich It's Gonna Rain, Part I (1965) Early Works Nonesuch
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10:37 PM |
| Shem Guibbory Violin Phase Steve Reich: Octet - Music for a Large Ensemble - Violin Phase ECM New Series
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10:38 PM |
| Steve Reich and Musicians Music for 18 Musicians Music for 18 Musicians ECM
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10:40 PM |
| Kronos Quartet Different Trains: America, Before the War Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint Nonesuch
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10:46 PM |
| Quatuor Diotima Steve Reich: Different Trains - 2. Europe, During the war American Music Naïve
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10:51 PM |
| Orchestra National de Lyon Steve Reich: Different Trains - 3. After the war (excerpts) Different Trains, Triple Quartet, The Four Sections Montaigne/naïve
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10:56 PM |
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10:58 PM |
| Scott Johnson John Somebody Part I John Somebody Tzadik
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11:00 PM |
| KBCS 91.3 FM - HD1 Bellevue Seattle Tacoma a public service of Bellevue College KBCS
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11:01 PM |
| Gordon Grdina Wayward Pendulum AttaBoyGirl Records
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11:10 PM |
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11:12 PM |
| Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor Be Out S'Cool Long Tall Sunshine NotTwo
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11:20 PM |
| Chick Corea Toy Room The Song of Singing (Expanded Edition) CM BLUE NOTE (A92)
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11:26 PM |
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11:29 PM |
| Miles Davis The Hen The Complete On The Corner Sessions Columbia/Legacy
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11:41 PM |
| Francesco D'Orazio Vito Palumbo: Chaconne - 1. Woven Lights Woven Lights Bis
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11:52 PM |
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11:56 PM |
| Morton Feldman Chorus and Orchestra 2 Chorus and Orchestra 2 self
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